Finland school shooting: Police arrest 12-year-old suspect as student dies and two others injured
Victims, all aged 12, were taken to hospital after the shooting in Vantaa, a suburb north of Helsinki
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Victims, all aged 12, were taken to hospital after the shooting in Vantaa, a suburb north of Helsinki
A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school outside the Finnish capital Helsinki injuring three other children, police said, adding that the attacker was in custody.Police were alerted to the scene at 09:08 am and later specified that both the suspect and the injured were all 12 years old.
The shooting took place at the Viertola school in Vantaa, a suburb of the capital Helsinki, which has around 800 pupils from first to ninth grade and a staff of 90 people.
One student died and two others were seriously injured when a 12-year-old opened fire at the Viertola school outside Helsinki.
A 12-year-old student was killed and two fellow classmates were seriously injured in a school shooting in Finland on Tuesday morning.